1914! The Avant-garde and the Great War | Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
7 War of forms. An aesthetics of dissapearance

 

Otto Dix
Black Bridge, 1918
Gouache, ink and watercolour on paper. 41.4 x 32.7 cm
Collection Triton Foundation, The Netherlands

Rudolf E. Belling
Fight, 1916
Bronze. 31.7 cm
Rudolf Belling Nachlass. Courtesy Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner, Bremen-Berlin

Rudolf E. Belling
Wounded, 1915
Bronze. 25 cm
Rudolf Belling Nachlass. Courtesy Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner, Bremen-Berlin

Giacomo Balla
Patriotic Demonstration, 1915
Oil on canvas. 101 x 137.5 cm
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Francesco Cangiullo
Large Crowd in Piazza del Popolo, Rome, 1914
Watercolour and ink on paper. 58 x 74 cm
Private collection

Giacomo Balla
Speeding automobile, 1914
Mixed media on board. 73 x 104 cm
Private collection

Pierre Albert-Birot
The War, 1916
Oil on canvas. 121.5 x 118 cm
Centre Pompidou. Musée national d'art moderne / Centre de création industrielle, Paris. Gift and usufruct of Arlette Albert-Birot, 1978

Giacomo Balla
Demonstration 20 September, 1915
Oil on canvas. 75 x 100 cm
Collezioni d'arte e di storia della Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio in Bologna, Bologna

Wassily Kandinsky
Picture with Three Spots, 1914
Oil on canvas. 121 x 111 cm
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Franz Marc
Broken Forms, 1914
Oil on canvas. 111.8 x 88.4 cm
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Franz Marc
Small Composition III, c. 1914
Oil on canvas. 46.6 x 58.5 cm
Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum, Hagen

Franz Marc
Abstract Forms II, 1914
Oil on canvas. 81 x 112.5 cm
LWL- Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte. Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Münster

Pavel Filonov
The German War, 1914-1915
Oil on canvas. 176 x 156.3 cm
The State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg